Example sentences of "[n mass] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the mines , the conditions were appalling ( as many of you know ) in the early 19th , but after an enquiry , the govt. passed laws preventing women & children from working . |
| 2 | Of the children this year who took GCSE 's , a 100% got grade A to C passes . |
| 3 | ‘ The Famous Grouse sponsored Scotland 's tour to New Zealand in 1990 and through that Matthew Gloag and Son Limited learned a lot about rugby and rugby sponsorship , although at that time no suitable rugby sponsorship of world standing was available . |
| 4 | It is clear that the higher echelons at headquarters regarded Stirling and his men as very valuable , but were also alive to his impetuous nature . |
| 5 | CAERPHILLY AND LEEK BAKE 900g / 2 lb leeks ( cleaned weight ) 45g / 1½ oz butter 45g / 1½ oz flour 1 pint creamy milk 1 tsp mild mustard 110g / 4oz crumbled Caerphilly cheese Salt and pepper Topping 85g / 3 oz crumbled Caerphilly cheese 85g / 3 oz brown bread crumbs ½ tsp celery seasoning 1 tbsp chopped parsley To finish 2 tbsp melted butter USING only the white part of the leeks , cut into 1 in pieces . |
| 6 | 1 Berghaus ACL ( Active Comfort Layer ) Polarsystem , 100% etched polyester , medium-weight vest , £26.95 ; 091–232 3561 for catalogue Verdict : fine for sedentary wear in cold conditions . |
| 7 | Thus in 1985 the wealthiest 1% of the population still owned 20% of all wealth and the wealthiest 10% owned 54% , leaving the other 90% of the population with less than half of all personal wealth . |
| 8 | This aircraft became G–FURY . |
| 9 | So we 're now able to support mainframe class applications with thousands of users in this data centred type database running thousands of applications with a mixture of decision support and online transaction processing . |
| 10 | On May 21 Israeli fighter aircraft attacked Hezbollah positions around Janta in the eastern Bekaa near the Syrian border , killing seven people and wounding 18 others . |
| 11 | At the same time Israeli military aircraft attacked Hezbollah positions in the Bekaa Valley , killing three civilians . |
| 12 | Israeli military aircraft attacked Hezbollah positions in Ayn al-Tinah in the western Bekaa Valley on Nov. 8 . |
| 13 | More aircraft provided cover , with Coastal Command Blenheims dropping smoke to screen landings and fighter-bombers — again Blenheims and Beaufighters — putting a protective umbrella over the raiding force for the next seven hours by flying 400 miles ( 650km ) from Wick , north Scotland , or 250 miles ( 400km ) from Shetland . |
| 14 | The flight proceeded uneventfully , in visual contact with the ground , until the aircraft approached Keswick . |
| 15 | Despite these unfavourable factors a high proportion could read direct information from the table , but any interpretation required by a question or any processing of the required data reduced success rates . |
| 16 | 44pc scored mortgage rates as their prime consideration . |
| 17 | In this comparative study PCNA data resembled BrdU data when scoring was restricted to the more strongly reactive PCNA nuclei . |
| 18 | This data comprised alphabets and handwritten phrases of unsegmented form from various writers . |
| 19 | However , Mitterrand denied on Jan. 20 that there was any geographical limitation on French commitment to the allied force and on Jan. 24 French aircraft bombed Iraq for the first time . |
| 20 | They dropped their torpedoes successfully and escaped , although one aircraft suffered damage . |
| 21 | The six passengers boarded the aircraft at about 1520 hours and the aircraft received clearance from Norwich Tower to taxi out for take-off on Runway 28 . |
| 22 | ‘ Unix is not open , only ajar ’ , Harold Mead of Metron Data told delegates during a talk on capacity planning , going on to describe in detail how , despite the fact that while data for performance measurement and capacity planning is available from Unix through utilities such as sar , ps , mpstat ( on some multi-processors ) , acctcom and last , data was often presented with different formats and content that could easily make a nonsense of the figures . |
| 23 | Long lines of aircraft parked wingtip to wingtip were attacked , and much damage was believed to have been done ; in fact many Bf110s and Ju52s were damaged , some seriously , but these attacks did little to stem the assault on the island . |
| 24 | Malnutrition was evident in all patients whose laboratory data showed hypoalbuminaemia ( mean ( SD ) was 2.6 ( 0.6 ) mg/dl , ranging from 1.0 to 3.5 mg/dl ) . |
| 25 | These data allowed Soane & Watkinson ( 1979 ) to build a computer simulation model to examine the relationship between the flux of ramets , the recruitment of seedlings and the diversity of genets within the populations . |
| 26 | During the attack on Yegyaw Thai aircraft fired warning shots at a Myanman unit of 100 men which had crossed into Thailand before attacking the KNU camp . |
| 27 | In results reported last summer ( New Scientist , vol 95 , p WS ) , their data confirmed quantum mechanics to within an even higher degree of accuracy than previous experiments . |
| 28 | The original Air Ministry design certificate for this aircraft fetched £3,100 at the Sotheby 's sale . |
| 29 | The data collected covers issues such as brand name awareness , future expenditures , purchasing considerations , satisfaction , software usage , levels of systems failures and porting and migration plans . |
| 30 | Among the 40 developing countries that participated in the WFS , there were two in which the level of infant mortality was higher in the metropolitan area than in rural places , eight in which the level was highest in other urban places than in either rural areas or the major urban areas and 29 countries for which data indicated infant mortality to be highest in rural places . |